Nicolas Sarkozy's conviction sparked a lot of reactions on the right -

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"Amazement" and "sadness" in the face of "judicial harassment": the right reacted virulently Monday to the conviction of Nicolas Sarkozy to three years in prison, including one for "corruption" in the so-called "eavesdropping" affair.

“The severity of the sentence adopted is absolutely disproportionate and reveals the judicial harassment of an already highly contested institution.

All light should be shed on the methods and independence of the PNF ”(national financial prosecutor), LR president Christian Jacob said on Twitter.

"An extremely harsh sentence in a particularly weak case"

The boss of senators LR Bruno Retailleau deplored "an extremely harsh sentence in a particularly weak case".

"All avenues of appeal must be used so that he can wash his honor and that the whole truth be made," said the president (ex-LR) of Hauts-de-France Xavier Bertrand.

His Hauts-de-France counterpart Valérie Pécresse wished that Nicolas Sarkozy could "make his truth heard on appeal".

“His life is a succession of trials that he has never ceased to overcome with energy and courage.

Once again, he will be able to demonstrate it ”, launched the boss of deputies LR Damien Abad.

PNF targets criticism

"It's a lot of sadness, I find that things have gone very severely," said LR mayor of Chalon-sur-Saône Gilles Platret on franceinfo, and LR vice-president of the National Assembly Annie Genevard s' is said to be "stunned" by providing "support" and "friendship" to Nicolas Sarkozy.

For the LR deputy of the Alpes Maritimes Eric Ciotti also “this ordeal (…) is only one stage in a legal process which is far from over”.

The deputy of Eure-et-Loir Olivier Marleix said he was "stunned by the heaviness of the sentence while the PNF did not bring any evidence".

"In 2017 already the choices of the PNF decided the presidential election", added Olivier Marleix, alluding to the investigation for suspicion of fictitious jobs opened for François Fillon, then candidate of the right who had not exceeded the first tower.

The National Gathering also in support

On the National Gathering side, Vice-President Jordan Bardella joked about “the Republic of Judges” and “their very questionable procedures”.

"If you doubted that in France, justice can be political you now have the answer", launched the MEP RN Thierry Mariani while his colleague Gilbert Collard estimated that "even if Nicolas Sarkozy appeals, even if he is released, he is marked by the hot iron of condemnation ”and“ it is the outright elimination of a potential appeal for The Republicans ”.

"I find all this terrible for the image of France" and "I am very hostile to judicial harassment," said RN spokesman Sébastien Chenu.

The boss of Debout France Nicolas Dupont-Aignan denounced him a "double standard", indignant: "when will justice be so severe with delinquents who deal in drugs and attack our police officers?

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